A Sudoku With Only 4 Given Digits?!

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Normal sudoku rules apply. In addition, both marked diagonals must also contain the digits 1 to 9. Cells that are a knight's move apart (in chess) cannot contain the same digit. The central 3x3 box must form a magic square.
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@jonandmoni2 4 года назад

Wife: what are you doing still looking at your phone at 2 AM? Me: looking for naked singles in this area.

@nutellanutella 4 года назад

This comment is underrated

@hadimazzi 4 года назад

this was hilarious you made me laugh anlot

@SpearofTrium05 4 года назад

Really good one

@kenjiotake 4 года назад

I really hope you didn't actually say this to your wi- sorry, ex-wife.

@Unlovable 4 года назад

Its easier to explain

@sk8element1919 3 года назад

Me: A six goes there Him: A three goes there Me: A three goes there

@Mermaider 3 года назад

🤣🤣🤣

@Kurdent1 3 года назад

The hardest part was the magic square and completing another line in next square. The diagonal and knight's move make the rest of the sudoku easy.

@Kurdent1 3 года назад

@@Mermaider nani?!?

@Mermaider 3 года назад

@@Kurdent1 sure thing! The actor or the football player? No clue who they are 😂😂

@Kurdent1 3 года назад

@@Mermaider you totally lost me. Are you the mermaid from Disney?

@brianbernstein3826 4 года назад

I yelled "7" at this guy and he figured out my credit card number minutes later

@MajorMilk 4 года назад

I told him I don't know my social security number, and he figured it out after a few minutes based off my height and age.

@petercarpenter7647 4 года назад

@@MajorMilk lol

@EJandEmmanGonzales 4 года назад

I don't think that's possible though. 01110111 01101111 01101111 01110011 01101000 01100010 01100001 01101001 01110100

@vinnig9075 4 года назад

@@EJandEmmanGonzales 01110010 00101111 01110111 01101111 01101111 01101111 01101111 01110011 01101000

@justindean7354 4 года назад

@@vinnig9075 01001000 01100101 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100111 01101111 01100100 01110011

@kordellcabe6 3 года назад

I was lost almost the entire time but I figured out the final nine before he did and frankly that’s win in my book.

@MWsamui 2 года назад

I managed to do the same but the fact that we did work that out before him is the reason we're not as good as him, it wasn't the right time for the 9 to be solved

@voncornhole 3 месяца назад

Same but the 4 in the center of the bottom row at 22:08 when he marked the 4s in rows 7 and 8

@shinysparce3708 3 года назад

Dude, this guy just seems so happy about the little things in life. The way he chuckles when he sees how cleverly the puzzle was made is so wholesome. Be like this guy. Enjoy the little things.

@Gquain Год назад

Dude, when he investigated the 2s to find out that magical link that plots everything nicely back to the start of his investigation, i nearly jump from my chair. This rewarding feeling is something that's been missing from my math class my entire school life. It gave me a new appreciation for Sudoku

@XplainHindi 5 месяцев назад

@@Gquain yeah.....

@bluexix 4 года назад

'Puts down a 5 in the middle' Oh yeah, it's all coming together

@luchia4tom134 4 года назад

Kronk!!!!! Oh how i've missed you!!! Finally something I know on this vid!! ^.^

@piggybump7512 4 года назад

I don’t know why this is funny but it is

@okamishiranui7841 4 года назад

I've heard about the diagonal rule before but the magic square is a first for me. Anyways is 5 the only solution in the middle for 3x3 squares?

@DominicPerry777 4 года назад

@@okamishiranui7841 Going by what he said, 5 is the only number to go in the middle of a magic square, by rules of elimination. The surrounding numbers vary a touch, depending on any fixed/already placed numbers.

@nhathuyhavu8357 4 года назад

How the fuck on earth 5 is the only choice for center? All number have a same role. I dare to say you can put any number in the center except 3,8,4 and 2, just imagine each number replaced by a color. This puzzle has not only 1 result but also dozens, maybe hundreds results (sorry I haven’t watched the whole video yet)

@sameepsapkota4615 4 года назад

Never in my 19 yrs of existence would I have ever agreed with anyone that one day at 2 in the morning I would be watching a guy playing sudoku

@dylanculver1796 4 года назад

God, its 5:34 am here and I'm doing exactly the same

@MiyushuBabii 4 года назад

This is where RU-vid needs "reactions" cuz I wanted to pick an "LOL" icon.

@colehaaks302 4 года назад

@@dylanculver1796 lmao nights young

@patrick1532 4 года назад

Same frickin boat here

@davidcuervo3160 4 года назад

Its 4:13 am for me lol

@seth094978 2 года назад

It's quite interesting how these knights move puzzles tend to end up rotationally symmetric. If you rotate the puzzle 180 deg and overlay it with itself, all cells sum to 10 (in other words, when reflected through the center point, all 1s land on 9s, 2s on 8s, 3s on 7s, 4s on 6s, and 5s land on themselves).

@pranayachowdary7123 2 года назад

Amazing that you noticed that though

@paula-zzz 2 года назад

thats such a cool thing to notice!

@joniboi3699 2 года назад

I rate that

@breadmonkeys 2 года назад

Oh, beautiful, thank you for sharing!

@jolijey7673 2 года назад

Thats so satisfying to look at, thanks!

@inspiringsand123 2 года назад

Rules: 00:49 Let's Get Cracking: 02:43 Puzzle Solved: 24:40 Simon's time: 21m57s And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Wow: 3x (11:36, 11:36, 14:22) Bother: 2x (21:41, 22:16) Obviously: 2x (01:32, 10:04) Good Grief: 1x (10:38) Eyes are Drawn: 1x (14:40) Axiomatically: 1x (04:30) Naked Single: 1x (21:13) Clever: 1x (14:04) Beautiful: 1x (24:40) Fascinating: 1x (14:22) Elegant: 1x (11:36) Going Mad: 1x (20:26) Hang On: 1x (11:54) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Fifteen (14 mentions) Seven (50 mentions) Yellow (2 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Odd (3) - Even (1)

@qetzing 2 года назад

This has to be taken more time than the actual video xd

@AH-yb9ov 2 года назад

I love lists like these! If you can make these you probably watch this man a lot. So just for the record there's another naked single (6) mention at 22:58

@justsomeguywhoneverdies9210 2 года назад

Inspiring Sand is a bot. And Simarkisms is words that Mark and Simon usually say when they are solving a sudoku puzzle.

@slowdtunez2438 4 года назад

That must be a 5 there Me: couldn't agree more

@gysmothediamond2046 4 года назад

GEUSSED IT C:

@A7m0spher1C 4 года назад

Yeah that one was obvious tbh

@shadowleaf3151 4 года назад

It could also be a 1 or 9...

@KimBTown 4 года назад

@@A7m0spher1C , I felt so smart tho...

@blu2uth 4 года назад

the comment is about 5, has 5.5 likes, had 5 comments before me🤯

@AgentMCCityDE 3 года назад

Imagine wanting to solve a sudoku and suddenly being forced to know the rules of chess

@lithonious636 3 года назад

Pretty sure he actually screwed up the knights move on the 2's unless it doesn't focus on how knights actually move

@lithonious636 3 года назад

Pretty much stopped watching after that 😒

@lithonious636 3 года назад

And the 3's

@recordeli5427 3 года назад

@@lithonious636 The knights move only implies the landing spot of the knight not the actual path taken there. But Sudoku rules also apply so the lane of the 2's and the 3's is also removed inadvertently

@Paul-ln2dr 3 года назад

How come the sodoku book i bought don't comply to the knight's move? Is the knight constraint a must? Tq

@tylergerald 3 года назад

At first when you were going over the constraints I was initially thinking "this is impossible" but they actually help you narrow things down, especially the knight's move constraint!

@gwenedy 3 года назад

I’ve never heard of magic squares or anything like this puzzle, I just do regular ones on my phone. This was really fun to watch

@bryangomez1887 4 года назад

I feel like the kid in high school who contributes nothing to the group project but still gets an A

@MrMica22 4 года назад

described my feeling exactly!

@erzbengelraziel5490 4 года назад

But you feel like you actually contributed something.

@MacKatha 4 года назад

Omg YES

@snowjix 4 года назад

@AsiaNPC Is everybody in cheerleading a cheerleader? A leader cannot lead a leader, so whats the point in having so many leaders and nobody to lead??

@tomvandeloo3067 4 года назад

@@snowjix a cheerleader leads the cheers of the audience i guess

@Afriendd 4 года назад

"We're actually able to finish the magic square, I don't know why I'm surprised by that but I just am." Yeah cant believe we solved it , we're a great team.

@oxey_ 4 года назад

Dora the explorer vibes, but the good kind :)

@maddie107 4 года назад

*puts hand on chin* yes, yes we did really well there... [goes off, over-confidently picks up her easy sudoku book, looks at first puzzle, cries]

@humidifierman 4 года назад

Good work team!

@freetube200 4 года назад

@Dosing Psychedelics got some in my freezer right now lol

@hsmacaraig 4 года назад

yee yee

@noitallmanaz 2 года назад

Here is the funny thing about this. This was the first video I ever watched on this channel. I didn't really even know about regular sudoku and never knew about these variants. I am also a fairly dim bulb when it comes to solving puzzles. This was so out of my league that I couldn't even understand it let alone try to get one number into the grid. But I have been an avid watcher and have been attempting to solve these puzzles every day since this. I decided to come back and try to solve this one just to see if I could do it without Simon's help. I did this puzzle in 17:04 and I was watching a basketball game that was distracting me on the side. This just shows what incredible teachers Mark and Simon are. I can solve about a third of the puzzles on here now, and with some slight miniscule help, can solve more than half.

@annabethchase2569 2 года назад

Good going

@shantanunene4389 2 года назад

I think this is a similar story for many viewers (including me) because this video went viral

@Reignor99 3 года назад

Sudoku with 1 given number: "This is absolutely mad" Sudoku with 4 given numbers: "This is absolutely mad" I love this channel.

@jestfullgremblim8002 Год назад

I mean, it is hahaha

@QuilloManar 4 года назад

Did I just watch a man solve a sudoku puzzle for 25 minutes with no background music or personal interest in sudoku? Yes, yes I did. Was I thoroughly engrossed the entire time? Yes, yes I was.

@andrewfarahmand3179 3 года назад

Basically sums up me

@Zhou_Yu 3 года назад

I actually like sudokus

@Zedareon 3 года назад

Fascinating for sure

@Wert1600 3 года назад

its kinda late at night, im tired, i do have to go to bed since 2 hours cause i really shoud rest, but i just watched this video and totally can agree with your comment XD (I should go to bed now)

@nouashax__ 3 года назад

Yes except I was mildly like sudokus, ever buy a book when I was in high school

@TRusher22 4 года назад

"That's a naked single" Stop talking dirty to me

@alejandro7203 4 года назад

😳

@cameronmcdonald3514 4 года назад

Omg lmao 😂😂😂

@HussAA23BBall 4 года назад

Stolen

@amirakhnun2700 4 года назад

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@ashbite7673 4 года назад

Get outta here

@mackenzielee5837 3 года назад

It just makes me so happy to watch this man be so passionate about something. He’s getting genuine joy out of this

@windybeach2184 Год назад

And sharing that joy with the world!

@carola-lifeinparis 3 года назад

this is proof that you can put anything on youtube if you help your audience follow along. Oh that was so beautifully resolved :) Well done. I never heard of these extra rules.

@finnv5459 4 года назад

Watching a 25 minute sudoku video wasn’t part of my evening plans but I’m not complaining

@Time4N3R0 4 года назад

Finn V algorythm finest, me aswell:D

@j.m.9519 4 года назад

12am her and im halfway trhrough the video....fascinating O_o

@yeshwanthraja2453 4 года назад

I dont know how time passed. I was very involved lol

@archieanansie3948 4 года назад

cheers mate!

@muptwitch9129 4 года назад

Isnt it magical...lovely video

@GhostinTube 4 года назад

Him: "that's a four and that must be a 5" Me an intellectual: " ah yes numbers"

@danisob3633 4 года назад

@loganarchibald3608 4 года назад

Matmitichion

@fil9o 4 года назад

Numbers Mason, what do they mean?

@patronarti5745 4 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@mtbra9435 4 года назад

I'm something of a mathematician myself.

@jamiebrown4647 3 года назад

never been so confused yet satisfied in my life

@reinc83 2 года назад

You did not search for this video.

@iustiniannegrei7244 4 года назад

It is absolutely fascinating that none of us really searched for this, yet here we are

@redinator5 4 года назад

iustinian negrei I wouldn’t say none, a few of us are regular viewers 😉

@MrChuck78929 4 года назад

@@redinator5 but did you search for it or you found it on your home screen?

@Jon99ay 4 года назад

I got here from a chess video and down the rabbit hole I went hehe

@pickyvanilla 4 года назад

4/20 sent me here

@nachobittini7293 4 года назад

@@pickyvanilla thats gold

@stephenholt6956 4 года назад

"That square is actually a naked single, that square is a 6" Wow me and that square have a lot in common

@anantanupam3 4 года назад

This needs to go right to the top!

@Blockio1999 4 года назад

Underrated comment

@JohnEsse 4 года назад

"This is a four/eight combo, and that four is pointing at it to resolve it" -Me and my gf in public.

@stephenholt6956 4 года назад

@@JohnEsse honestly a perfect response

@coconutflour9868 4 года назад

This is the funniest comment I have ever fucking seen.

@JumperSnipera Год назад

This was the first CTC video I watched during the summer of 2020. I stumbled upon it simply because it had shown up as a recommended video despite having never watched a sudoku video before. I clicked it, I regret nothing.

@Erin_Wilson_Studios 2 года назад

My mind isn't wired to understand this at all, but it's so lovely to watch someone good at what they do, working away with such joy

@droe2570 4 года назад

This is one of those puzzles where making the puzzle is probably harder than solving it.

@erokMine 4 года назад

I am pretty sure, computer generates this with a little help

@PuffleBuns 4 года назад

@@erokMine I feel like writing a computer program that can generate these kinds of puzzles with the specific constraints would be pretty daunting as well.

@maxnovakovics2568 4 года назад

I figured it would have been laid out with the rules in mind, and then just removed most the digits

@Dimonite314 4 года назад

As someone who's attempted to make crosswords: that's every puzzle.

@codeender5980 4 года назад

@@PuffleBuns adding extra constraints should be nothing for a well-designed algorithm. However, if the base Sudoku algorithm is poorly structured and takes too many shortcuts... bodging the extra constraints in could be a problem.

@stayhungry7436 4 года назад

This guy should have written the finale to game of thrones

@mothybunn 4 года назад

everyone would kill each other and resolve problems with mathematical equations and I feel like I would be into that

@SyckoSiren 3 года назад

Me: doesn’t know anything about sudoku Me: yeah let’s watch a 25min video of a sudoku

@izzyshootsiphone 3 года назад

Everything he just said, I was about to say myself

@pattygee7267 4 года назад

As someone who loves this channel, I'm glad the comments are filled with people who got recommended this out of nowhere and enjoyed it.

@curiouslamp2841 4 года назад

I happen to be one of those people. Turns out this is now his most viewed video within a week.

@Hamza-nv2kw 4 года назад

I beleive its because James Charles tweeted about his channel

@NailujG 4 года назад

@@Hamza-nv2kw That helped it, but I was one of the people who was recommended this specific video by YT and I am hooked

@evanjames6164 4 года назад

In watching this at 1am and I’m not complaining

@sleeperthoee 4 года назад

Evan James 1:40 AM for me. I honestly thought the sudoku puzzles I did were pretty hard. Seeing 4 numbers tore me a new one but either way, great channel tbh. Never thought there’d be a sudoku channel.

@babygoatOW 3 года назад

Me after him practically solving the entire puzzle: “the 1 HAS to go there” Him seconds later: “The 1 goes here” Me: YES IM BIG BRAIN

@lookimnotracistbut5695 3 года назад

I saw something he didn't see for 10 minutes and I feel so smart even though I wouldn't have been able to solve the puzzle on my own

@lordtalonmarsden826 3 года назад

@@lookimnotracistbut5695 What did you see?

@lookimnotracistbut5695 3 года назад

@@lordtalonmarsden826 That was 1 week ago I don´t remember "useless" stuff that long sorry

@xhbirohx2214 3 года назад

@@lookimnotracistbut5695 understandable pls have a nice day

@feckingud 3 года назад

1 out of 9.

@RobOwenKing 3 года назад

So fun coming back to some of these a year later. "Only 4 digits?" Oh my poor summer child. You have no idea what's coming.

@randybell101190 Год назад

I love how far this has come in two years. 4 given digits and 25 minutes is a GAS puzzle these days 😂

@aixan1666 4 года назад

the pure adrenaline i felt when he started cracking off all the two's

@trialsbike2135 4 года назад

aha same😂 quality comment

@sydneydumoit 4 года назад

Honestly I was so confused...my last three brain cells hurt after all of that

@werewindwolf 4 года назад

Fair enough. Though that's not even the difficult part of it all.

@Aeiouley 4 года назад

yea, never heard of the "knight's move" rule but it is a pretty powerful constraint

@mjc0961 4 года назад

Hell, when he started cracking off 2s and I was starting to grasp the rules and also realize "oh, 2 has to go there"

@DreamKeeper. 4 года назад

I can’t believe I’ve come this far in quarantine where I’m watching a guy play sudoku

@flipchute 4 года назад

WICKEDGaming pssh no joke man

@JosephTheGodOfPotatoes 4 года назад

WICKEDGaming same

@jetstreak2786 4 года назад

How we've fallen.

@chiefqueef5985 4 года назад

Yep, the darkest hole of boredom

@destinarchy 4 года назад

@ssmalley2193 Год назад

This is way more exciting than I thought it would be

@LivelyLinnea Год назад

nearly 3 years after this was uploaded and it first showed up in my recommendations, it was recommended to me again. Only now I'm an avid cracking the cryptic watcher and it's all thanks to this video. wow time sure does fly.

@gentuxable 4 года назад

Is it just me or did anyone else thought at first: Extra rules makes it even harder, but actually that rules out a lot of possibilities and makes it easier.

@mauer1 4 года назад

Extra rules always makes it easier. The less possibilities the more you can say for sure to rule other possibilities out. Especially if you can write down the possibilities for each unique square.

@gentuxable 4 года назад

@@mauer1 to be honest i play sudoku completely different now. :D before I didn't know what the small numbers were for lol.

@britishgovernment7053 4 года назад

Without the Knights move, diagonals and magic square, I reckon that would be unsolvable

@mauer1 4 года назад

@@britishgovernment7053 it would be easily solveable, though it would have more than one solution.

@britishgovernment7053 4 года назад

@@mauer1 Interesting, would be good to see that done as well

@Sam-hs7bu 2 года назад

"And we've done all the twos all of a sudden" made me laugh for some reason 🤣

@allylee3024 5 месяцев назад

Congratulations to Cracking the Cryptic and Aad van de Wetering for the number of views on this beauty of a puzzle as well as it's solve. This was my favorite year of sudoku solving. I think Aad's puzzles introduced me to chess moves in sudoku. You can imagine I did not solve them myself.

@mymy6018 4 года назад

"We've done all of the 2's all of a sudden... Wow... Wow... How elegant is that?" This guy is amazing!

@dracobutwhatever8611 4 года назад

mimi88 British ppl be like:

@milannesic5718 4 года назад

Grid is empty. Guy just adds his own numbers, and that's it. Hi is not solving anything, he is making it

@ciarabutler3340 4 года назад

Him: 18 minutes in Me: Still trying to understand the magic square

@valeria207 4 года назад

20 min in and I'm still trying to understand the knights rule

@GOLD-ts7bx 4 года назад

@@valeria207 6 hours in and im still trying to understand 6

@SamuelEspera 4 года назад

19 years in and I'm still trying to understand why I was born.

@hanadotexe 3 года назад

17 min in and I'm still trying to understand sudoku

@jhonnysabia7124 3 года назад

1 month and im still trying to understand your comment

@windybeach2184 Год назад

This old video has given me such an appreciation for the new software and the amazing free app

@danieltwine3144 6 месяцев назад

Mate I can't believe I've only just found you - you are completely awesome. Watching this 25 minutes has been my favourite thing all day :)

@MajorMilk 4 года назад

The man managed to entertain us with a single Sudoku level for 25 minutes.

@Ruzzky_Bly4t 4 года назад

I guess the views are a sign that there are still people with an attention span of over 30 seconds. I was sure that something like sudoku, which requires quite a lot of intellectual effort will not get more than 300 thousand views.

@MajorMilk 4 года назад

@@Ruzzky_Bly4t My attention span us very bad, I just like sudoku.

@justcee 3 года назад

RawSloth ikr

@heavenlything 3 года назад

sudoku rocks thats why

@chrisparkhurst5158 3 года назад

Right?!

@akuankka6445 4 года назад

no idea why I'm watching this but I feel like this made my IQ step up by 10 points

@emon8506 4 года назад

your iq levelled up!

@lennon_richardson 4 года назад

I'm feeling pretty stupid myself

@sadblueyluey4696 4 года назад

indeed

@tonyleech761 4 года назад

So you doubled your IQ. Nice.

@juliabrooks8396 4 года назад

Tony Leech lmao

@ImSpun13 2 года назад

This is my favorite puzzle so far that I’ve seen. It’s not ridiculously difficult, the rules are easy to understand and the symmetry makes it beautiful. Hats off to the creator! 🎩 🙋‍♂️

@EliteKindaNoob 2 года назад

I remember watching this so long ago, and I searched your channel later for it but that failed. And now it finally came up in my recommended now. Yay.

@MXCN_El1011 4 года назад

"Oh that's easy so this must be __ and this has to be __" Me who probably couldn't solve this in 25 days: Oh yeah it's so obvious.

@sancheetb 4 года назад

M_X_C_N probably?

@karimuda3043 4 года назад

Same

@keeperse6 4 года назад

I'm trying to solve it right now! The timer is on two hours, and I'm at 14:20 of this video....

@ddunfuh9239 4 года назад

It took my 20 minutes of abusing the check system to do it

@MisterNohbdy 4 года назад

Actually try it before thinking so poorly of yourself. You might be surprised. And, if not, just remember all of these skills are learnable, not some magical natural talents. ^_^

@denitsar3802 4 года назад

Man: solves whole sudoku and shows little to no excitement Me: *figures out a number before him and is excited like a kid hearing the ice cream truck drive by*

@gildeddrake1479 4 года назад

especially near the end. there was so many possible ways to end it, I just took advantage of him pausing for 2sec to see one he didn't. meanwhile I would've spent 10 hours on the first 10 min of the video.

@michaelrobertson714 4 года назад

I was only moderately excited to place the 4 in the bottom row 2 minutes before him at 22:00. It only shows how many ways there are to solve a puzzle.

@denitsar3802 4 года назад

Michael Robertson i was talking about that 4 too haha 😁

@Damariobros 4 года назад

I figured out the top left square's 5 way before he did, and I know next to nothing about sudokus. I'm sitting here silently cheering in the dead of night. EDIT: I mean the top left 3x3 grid's 5.

@torknudsen2316 4 года назад

The bottom center four you mean? :-)

@tormuse2916 2 года назад

This is the first "Cracking the Cryptic" video I ever came across, and I wanted to share that I finally solved it today. :) That's not to say I was working on it constantly; I just came back to it a few times over the months, but kept making mistakes, but today was when I finally solved it on my own, so I'm pretty pleased about that. :)

@andymoss 2 года назад

Looking back at some older videos, I truly appreciate the deft in how you present the newer content.

@Morgan423Z 4 года назад

First 5 minutes of this video: How does this (a RU-vid channel with someone solving sudoku puzzles) exist? By end of video: of course this exists. How did I ever doubt it?

@seafoam6119 4 года назад

Essentials. Thats what this channel fits in

@bigben6340 4 года назад

When I was 5 min into the video I spotted the viewed count (2,23 million) and it had only been on YT for 10 days and was realy shocked that anyone could get over 10 000 views doing sudoku, but damn was this a good video

@sadcat8671 4 года назад

#StayHome

@doedelkakje 4 года назад

Anifco67 legend

@iamAdoreee 4 года назад

And why did I watch the whole damn thing?

@TradingWithSergueev 4 года назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😩😩

@vincent4724 4 года назад

@@iamAdoreee same... all 25 minutes of it too ._.

@StrongShizuma001 4 года назад

RU-vid recommendation. Not disappointed, for once.

@crazyballerdudeyt1570 2 года назад

never seen sudoku in my life but u just made my day by how excited u were to solve the puzzle. had me totally enamored in a puzzle i really didn’t care for. very intelligent man keep doing what you do

@rexmyers991 2 года назад

Absolutely Brilliant! I can’t believe I actually followed along. I had to pause it twice to catch up. Very enjoyable.

@drazenpavlovic9406 4 года назад

*puts number in Him: " Oh look at that now." - me watching in confusion

@cecidantas5643 4 года назад

HAHAHHAHAHAH

@allenalle-rz1oz 4 года назад

Hahahahahahh😂

@auro7409 4 года назад

This is a mood and a half. You honestly made me cackle

@fox9201 4 года назад

xddddd

@philiplind99 4 года назад

good one

@callumsapey3021 3 года назад

not sure how I ended up watching this at 4 am, I’m usually watching people build pools in the jungle.

@starlightjupiter6192 3 года назад

Hahahaha!! I watch the dudes building pools in the jungle also.

@TheShadowMan. 3 года назад

I'm convinced the jungle pools are a $$ making scam 💣

@kkall596 3 года назад

Lmaoo

@gangsterg1936 3 года назад

I'm watching this at 1:00 am, so I guess thats better....

@kevinwise786 3 года назад

Watching it at 2:30am

@kaydubsthekoifish 2 года назад

I had this in my Watch later for years (well, more like months), and only now got around to watch it. It was quite fun solving along.

@Xhopp3r 3 года назад

Brilliant. I've been playing sudoku for a few years now. I never even thought of using the knight move from chess. I play the hardest level on the app I have, but apparently that is easy in comparison to other sudoku puzzles. Thanks for opening my eyes to different ways of solving sudoku puzzles.

@vvpixelatedgoat3731 4 года назад

I have never been so fascinated with a game of sudoku in my life

@jespervandijk6003 4 года назад

you have 420 likes and you commented this on 420

@recurrenTopology 4 года назад

@@jespervandijk6003 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QZXc39hT8t4.html

@vaishnevsreejeev 4 года назад

1K th like😂

@DavidErickRamos 4 года назад

Don’t know how this ended up on my recommended, but enjoyed it from start to finish. Brilliant work!

@darcksage1 3 года назад

Wow... never thought I'd find you here...

@andrewfarahmand3179 3 года назад

Same lmao.

@itzcain81 3 года назад

Lol have no idea how it ended up in mine either and same loved every min of it.

@aryankashyap4715 3 года назад

Same

@porygon-z5828 3 года назад

David Erick Ramos - Ocarina same

@fulltimeslackerii8229 3 года назад

This was the amazing video that I found 1-2 months ago that I’m so glad got me to discover this channel

@Leftfield71 2 года назад

That was surprisingly enthralling. Amazing how quickly he solved that puzzle with so few clues.

@DarkKnightofHeaven 4 года назад

It's really fascinating how the knights restriction actually makes narrowing things down easier.

@Pr1est0fDoom 4 года назад

Yes, restrictions are very helpful in this game.

@barneya1965 4 года назад

Honestly a very fun variation on the game, I enjoyed it much more than the solving strategies I typically use for sudoku.

@lalit.1 4 года назад

I play it everyday and now after learning this knight move, it's going to be easier.

@Panic_Pickle 4 года назад

Lalit Singh Fauzdar the knight move isn’t applicable to all sudoku, nor is the magic square. Both are additional rules for this particular puzzle

@Zarrow1 4 года назад

I love doing killer sudokus for this exact reason

@VolvagiasBlaze 4 года назад

this isn't the type of let's play i was looking for, but i'm not complaining

@Petrichorus- 4 года назад

LMAO

@breannadexter6983 4 года назад

😂 Same, though.

@emray3645 4 года назад

i was your 1,000th like

@Petrichorus- 4 года назад

@@emray3645 nice

@Fadilanse 4 года назад

same, same, lol

@deborahwhite9331 3 года назад

I enjoyed how you got the magic square in the center. I did not even think of how to get the three X rows. It was a pleasure watching how fast you went too.

@Linkus555888 2 года назад

No idea how this ended up on my recommendations, i don't even like sudoku but i watched the entire video and am now looking for online sudoku puzzles. Amazing to watch! :D

@Armund_Wolffe 4 года назад

The fact that the diagonals and knight’s move “restrictions” practically made this solvable is amazing to me.

@pelletier1986 4 года назад

Exactly. At first I was very skeptical when just seeing the board with 4 numbers, but those additionnal restrictions are actually huge clues and tremendiously help in solving it. Not saying it's easy, I'm no Sudoku expert (I don't really like them). His software is pretty nice though! Taking notes like this in real life is more... messy haha.

@SuperUghe 4 года назад

Why? It just gives you more ways to eliminate numbers and figure out the correct ones

@Armund_Wolffe 4 года назад

SuperUghe exactly. At first glance it just sounds like the “restrictions” would make it harder, when in reality they enable you to solve the puzzle.

@joseignaciofarias2617 4 года назад

Thats one of my favorite principles of game design, you cant always mark the end of the level with a reward, you can spice it up by showing the player where NOT to go (I know it sounds stupid, but once you have it in your mind you realize how many levels could be upgraded with that phylosophy)

@zierlyn 4 года назад

In fact, the three added restrictions (diagonals, knight's move, and magic square) made this sudoku much easier to solve than most regular ones. There wasn't even a single mention of any type of "fish."

@cazkills 4 года назад

he keeps saying "we know" as if i actually understand sudoku and im not just watching this at 4am out of curiousity

@aby1061 4 года назад

mikhailo I play Sudoku and even I don’t understand what’s happening lmfao.

@BURDYMAN777 4 года назад

It is now 4:13 am and I I'm watching this out of curiosity lol

@MrHerodoto 3 года назад

Perfect feeling! Me at 3 AM here. Never did a sudoku in my life because I never knew how. And this guy does it like it is a magical thing. Crazy stuff.

@vilhelm0824 3 года назад

@@aby1061 I though is my problem

@ssj_neo 3 года назад

@@aby1061 basically they added math to sudoku. No matter which way you turn the magic square it will add up to 15. Then they also added a bit of chess into the equation so it makes it easier to discern the location of certain numbers based off a chess knight.

@nevohyams 2 года назад

Usually with these videos I just watch, but this time I had a strong urge to go do it. Took me 44 minutes, though I did struggle a bit with the formatting of the website. I really enjoyed it!

@RandalXVI 4 года назад

*puts a 5 in the middle square* Me: "outstanding move"

@olympiavitali9035 4 года назад

this guy is so calming he's like the bob ross of puzzles.

@opachkii 4 года назад

Bob Ross’s little brother

@blueninja6913 4 года назад

FAX half the time I had to check if the video was paused lol

@polishedmeat6399 4 года назад

I recommend you check out Ephermal Rift, he does a shit ton of good ASMR videos, and he even played Minecraft, and made a sacntuary, just type in youtube "Minecraft Sanctuary"

@salemtargaryen123 4 года назад

Happy little trees

@allylee3024 5 месяцев назад

This was the puzzle that introduced me to chess moves in sudoku. I did not attempt this one on my own. But this is one of my favorites. I still remember watching this one.

@GAMINGWITHCABBAGE 7 месяцев назад

i didn't realize this was a 25 minute video until after i had watched the whole thing. bravo. kept me encapsulated the whole time

@TheSourLemon. 4 года назад

Never thought i would be so interested in watching someone solve a soduko without problem.

@plauze82 4 года назад

Never played Sudoku. No idea what he is doing. No idea why this was recommended to me. But it was really entertaining.

@danielross7983 4 года назад

Loads of onliune sudoko sites... with the virus, it's a good time to learn how to solve them.

@zaddyxyborg9873 4 года назад

Youve never played sudoku? Thats crazy my 2nd grade teacher gave me my first there were only like 8 open slots

@alexandrubragari1537 4 года назад

The Algoritm knows you, better then you do lol

@dr.vivekaakula1541 4 года назад

you should learn how to its really interesting

@donniexdarko 4 года назад

same

@AlonzoTheArmless 2 года назад

I can't believe I enjoyed watching someone play Sudoku. I learned so much watching this. Thanks for sharing this.

@eliecchase 6 месяцев назад

This is legit my favorite sudoku ever and I love forgetting the solution to discover it again. Thank you for introducing this to me!

@omegastar2508 3 года назад

This whole video I'm just: "I like your funny words magic man"

@mahinwahid5161 3 года назад

Omega Star my personal favorite part was when he filled the numbers

@dj_thunderkwark1536 3 года назад

He speaks dutch if ur wondering

@MinamotoShunko 3 года назад

Forbidden app user

@gabej5687 3 года назад

A redditor in the wild?

@omegastar2508 3 года назад

@@gabej5687 no

@CrimsonKing11 3 года назад

25 minutes of me silently saying “ahh yes of coarse” to myself even though I had no idea of what was happening

@somestranger0283 3 года назад

i dont even know how sudoku works, but i still watched the entire thing, i dont know why

@willgibson7259 3 года назад

@@somestranger0283 start from basic ones, they're a really great puzzle

@alli97253 3 года назад

@@somestranger0283 the basic rules are: you need one of each of the numbers 1-9 in every row, column, and 3x3 box. And since there’s 9 cells in each, that means there can’t be repeats. Any extra rules are specific to the puzzle and are explained at the beginning of the video

@tacocatt6808 3 года назад

Course*

@Deep_phobias 3 года назад

@@tacocatt6808 no he meant coarse, sudoku is a rough game

@DangerNoodleReads 2 года назад

The newspaper sudoku quivers before this man.

@Hwkman4 3 года назад

I used to do sudokus for a break from studying during medschool. I gave one of the hardest ones to my buddy, and he solve it in under 2 minutes. Writing them in from left to right top to bottom. I had always known he had the most impressive memory of anyone I have ever met. But in that moment I felt chills.

@verueblue 3 года назад

It makes me weirdly so much happy to see him solving this - the way he says "It's so clever and elegant" Melts my heart every time

@davienng7859 3 года назад

Alr, boys, we know what this means(everyone starts becoming sudoku addicts)😂😂😂

@Sebactvi 3 года назад

Neasi říkal jsem si to samý Veruš

@skutecnyatom 3 года назад

Máš naprostou pravdu Verčo

@bimbon123 2 года назад

Čau Verčo

@sregginetahi999 2 года назад

how do you pronounce your name Ms. Trckova

@HerrSimonson 4 года назад

This quarantine really got me watching a guy solving a sudoku at 2:30 am while eating pasta naked but with socks on a monday night

@koerdzijlstra8513 4 года назад

The creepy part is that I'm doing the exact same thing wtf

@zmaj12321 4 года назад

is naked pasta eating just a normal thing then?

@anandasatria7734 4 года назад

I do that often

@her_bs 4 года назад

You posted this at 8 on a Sunday

@anandasatria7734 4 года назад

@@her_bs He could be on the other side of the earth

@deaconpimp 3 года назад

I love how you get to a certain point figuring out the same blocks, but eventually reach a point of diversion where you finish solving the puzzle in a totally different sequence. I’d also like to thank you for teaching a few new rules and techniques in sudoku.

@gray9065 3 года назад

I wasn’t going to watch this whole videos but you voice is just so calming and fun to listen to.

@azopheliornergal4121 4 года назад

Dear RU-vid algorithm: Thank you, nailed it this time.

@qwazaqwazaq 4 года назад

Я тоже в шоке!

@wristdisabledwriter2893 4 года назад

I love it when you say “what a beautiful puzzle”. That should be your catchphrase

@tovekauppi1616 4 года назад

It basically is.

@pseudonym8667 4 года назад

chew

@kaihocompany 4 года назад

I imagine him saying it at the cashier after finishing a basic transaction.

@ericmckenzie7132 4 года назад

Iui

@ericmckenzie7132 4 года назад

Isaac Eow has was nobody o

@dannamanna99 3 года назад

got here some how, but stayed and watched the whole thing. I enjoyed how you talked it thru and explained your thought process.

@benjaminclausen3718 3 года назад

I never watched sudokus done by others before... But you my friend, you earned my subscription

@catherine52525 4 года назад

i was thoroughly entertained from start to finish wow.

@sadblueyluey4696 4 года назад

indeed bro

@doorwish3403 4 года назад

@@sadblueyluey4696 lmao

@sadblueyluey4696 4 года назад

@@doorwish3403 lol why?

@doorwish3403 4 года назад

@@sadblueyluey4696 the use of a word like indeed with bro

@sadblueyluey4696 4 года назад

@@doorwish3403 hahaha ye I figured it now after thorough speculation bro

@TheLyricsGuy 3 года назад

Me: “Well, we know there isn’t a 2 in the bottom row...”

@walterreedjr6762 3 года назад

He started with a 2 in the bottom row

@reallaporte2845 3 года назад

And the right column...

@nathanwoolard4738 3 года назад

Walter Reed Jr that’s... that’s the joke

@clarayu5409 3 года назад

@@walterreedjr6762 r/whoosh

@nothingisreal6816 3 года назад

@@walterreedjr6762 Yeah that's the joke man

@Lumosed 4 месяца назад

The puzzle was so beautiful! You'd think it's not possible to fill it but the constraints are thought out in such an amazing manner

@InfamousMoron Год назад

I never thought that watching brithish man solving sudoku can be this enjoyable

@johnold6867 3 года назад

i really hope he doesn’t focus any of his brain energy on anything else because if he did he could take over the world

@rumle5 3 года назад

Are you saying you don't want to be ruled by this Sodoku Overlord?

@pearcehubbart3767 3 года назад

We've had way worse at this point I'm not gonna knock anyone before they try.

@benjareinecke883 3 года назад

I already did that :D

@elfy7547 3 года назад

WEL DONT GIVE HIM tHe idEa

@rubydubdub2965 2 года назад

I think I trust him in charge though